[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Since moving to an ATX mb I get quite good stability from my OS/2 >>(Warp 4 + FP15). My system will easily run for a month (the max length >>I happened to have observed so far) > > > What kernel are you running?
That observation was with 14.062_W4. Since then I have installed 14.091B_W4. Disappointingly after reading your post but having to break off for dinner I came back to a total freeze! Of course I'll be keeping an eye on it. If necessary I'll go back to 14.062_W4. However, the WPS can get cantankerous - see the problems I've had with PMView printing in comp.os.os2.apps or aus.computers.os2. Instability may have crept in via the WPS. When that happens it sometimes clears itself. I get the distinct feeling the WPS sometimes behaves like a living thing and get bad moods, off days and hard to get on with! I wonder whether this is because it is so complicated that it can get internally tangled and thus start behaving badly. Todays freeze followed my running Cleanini yesterday. I won't know till many days elapses. Often you can tell when it is a WPS freeze when underlying services keep going like LAN services and the clock keeps ticking but you can't control the damn machine! Instability may not be attributable to Moz/2. Could instability your way may be latent in your WPS? which Moz/2 with its heavy demand on resources brings to the surface? SO 5.1 similarly makes heavy demand on resources. Although I didn't say in so many words, what I implied in my last post is that when it is loaded on my system and left running it makes so much demand on my system I'm sure it shortens possible up-time. Last time it ran for about a week and hung the machine. Quite often this is precipitated by Screen Saver trying to come out of DPMS. The above freeze occurred like that. > > >>provided I observe certain restrictions which are: load Moz/2 before >>any other major application > > > I wish that would do it here. > > >>My mb has 256 MB on board. > > > Do you also have a utility that retrieves lost memory from time to time? No. I can't say that I've noticed the free memory OD shows on its Control Centre drifts downwards as up-time progresses. I'm not sure that a "lost memory" detector would show gradual filling up and overflow of stack space(s). The problem would be like a slow leak in a tyre. That takes many days for the problem to be noticeable. > > Jim L > Snip XX to Email > > Don't look back... the lemmings are gaining. >
